The author of The Notebook(October, 1996), Message In A Bottle(April, 1998), A Walk To Remember(October 1999), The Rescue(September 2000), A Bend In The Road(September 2001), Nights In Rodanthe(September 2002), The Guardian(April 2003), The Wedding(September 2003), Three Weeks With My Brother(April 2004), True Believer(April 2005), At First Sight(October 2005), Dear John(October 2006), and The Choice(September 2007)
When a girl watches/reads too many compositions by Nicholas Sparks and expects every man to kiss her in the rain or send her letters while he's in another country professing his love to her.
Kiley had the Nicholas Sparks affect take ahold of her, causing her to break up with her boyfriend because he didn't randomly bring her flowers.
churchhurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the churchhurt that was inflicted on me as a child.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.